Better mean than tween
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Dubbing them "tweens" Hollywood thought they'd found a ready audience for pap.
So they churned out modernised Cinderella stories to which any grandma would be delighted to take her granddaughter, turning the teenage actors Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff and Anne Hathaway into the queens of tween.
Now they find that the tweens want films they can see with their older sisters.
Bye, bye, Cinders: nice girls finish last at the movies
Girls behaving badly are far more fun to watch. The big draw of both "13 Going on 30" and "Mean Girls" is that instead of giving us innocent, blameless heroines, they show us what happens when good girls temporarily turn nasty.
The New Teen Movies: No More Miss Nice Girl
"I think this movie will terrify parents and might even scare some kids who are going into high school," said Leslie Curtis, a senior at Huntington High School.
Local students find parallels between movie and real life
Unsurprisingly some people aren't amused.
Recently, behavior of adolescent girls has been the rage. Movies and television shows equate teen with mean and tweenish Bratz dolls glare from store shelves and magazine ads. The movie "Mean Girls" is currently the No. 1 box-office hit. Girls now get the message that, in addition to academic and athletic accomplishments, they should be thin, sexy and violent. (Check out "Charlie's Angels," "Tomb Raider" or "Kill Bill.")
Girl-on-girl cruelty isn't entertaining